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Great Giana SistersI read that the GGS was considered a Mario-infringement, and therefore it didn't come out on the Speccy, but why was it OK to publish it on ye olde C…
... were all lacking the smooth SCROLL magic...[/QUOTE]
You obviously ... game featuring probably the best horizontal scrolling ever seen on a ... -
Why did track-ball thingies never catch on?Just fixed a bloke's laptop, and he mentioned how he hates the mouse touchpad that's built in to it. I concur, and I told him to use an external mous…
... due to wear from the scroll function and even when the ... bed whilst i am lying horizontal. I could not ever think ... -
SP1 library questionsI'm working on my first game. I've not written a game since the late 1980s and that was a text based multiuser dungeon for BBC Micros with econet... …
... connection with SP1 are the horizontal rotation tables for sw shifting ... ;view=markup"]spectrum.h[/URL]. Scroll down to the "display functions ... -
Add horizontal hardware scroll to ULA+In this case we must read a bit in the ULA+ for test if supported. And the future software that uses it must have to branch: 1. If hardware scroll i…
... I am only interested in horizontal hw scroll. I want to do ... demo at 50fps using hw scroll and shadow screen. I will ... not as needed as hw scroll. In terms of performance, writing ... -
Add horizontal hardware scroll to ULA+In this case we must read a bit in the ULA+ for test if supported. And the future software that uses it must have to branch: 1. If hardware scroll i…
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The scroll state are the 3 lower ... not showed correctly (but the scroll in the emulator is well ... (of course without fine grain scroll).
3. The changes ... reserved for vertical scroll (5b38 if horizontal and vertical scroll are used at ... -
Add horizontal hardware scroll to ULA+In this case we must read a bit in the ULA+ for test if supported. And the future software that uses it must have to branch: 1. If hardware scroll i…
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The scroll state are the 3 lower ... not showed correctly (but the scroll in the emulator is well ... (of course without fine grain scroll).
3. The changes ... reserved for vertical scroll (5b38 if horizontal and vertical scroll are used at ... -
Add horizontal hardware scroll to ULA+In this case we must read a bit in the ULA+ for test if supported. And the future software that uses it must have to branch: 1. If hardware scroll i…
... firmware upgrades for that PCB: horizontal/vertical scroll, raster interrupts, non-blink ... -
Up/Down Left/Right scrollCan anybody give a newbie some pointer to simple one char scrolling by pixel? I've looked at a lot of resources, but as you can imagine, it's all a …
What are you trying to scroll? The screen or sprite graphics ... repeat this code for each horizontal byte of sprite definition
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Pixelwise scrolling sideways - how many ways to do it?Not that I need to, but I've been wondering if there's a good way to do this that I haven't considered. Scrolling [B]pixelwise [/B]vertically is "ea…
... of R-Type does not scroll the entire screen, that would ... space. You only need to scroll the yy characters and not ... a block of characters to scroll (and scrolled them) you need ... there are very few contiguous horizontal background characters.
This ... -
Pixelwise scrolling sideways - how many ways to do it?Not that I need to, but I've been wondering if there's a good way to do this that I haven't considered. Scrolling [B]pixelwise [/B]vertically is "ea…
... I can do the Cobra scroll over the full screen ... . A 16-character wide horizontal scrolling game isn't going ... I could then 4-pixel scroll the main screen. I ... Speccy for a 2-pixel scroll, or 2 buffers for ... a 4-pixel scroll. But sadly, without being ... -
Pixelwise scrolling sideways - how many ways to do it?Not that I need to, but I've been wondering if there's a good way to do this that I haven't considered. Scrolling [B]pixelwise [/B]vertically is "ea…
In discussions of horizontal scrolling I'm always surprised ... first full colour smooth scrolling horizontal shoot-em up I'd ... />
Granted that the parallax scroll effect is limited to the ... -
Pixelwise scrolling sideways - how many ways to do it?Not that I need to, but I've been wondering if there's a good way to do this that I haven't considered. Scrolling [B]pixelwise [/B]vertically is "ea…
... =Arjun;597549]In discussions of horizontal scrolling I'm always surprised ... first full colour smooth scrolling horizontal shoot-em up I'd ... />
Granted that the parallax scroll effect is limited to the ... -
Exilei\'m sure this has been brought up before but couldn't find a thread in 'New Game Ideas'. Why did the Spectrum never get a port of the BBC game Exile…
... can do the pre-shifted scroll in a spare uncontended bank ... different rows of the screen. Horizontal scrolling, at less than 8 ... -
The most powerful 8-bit machine, and CPU?Further to the discussion in: [url]http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=621787[/url] What actually is the best 8-bit ma…
... the CoCo2/Dragon, some hardware scroll (vertically per pixel, horizontally per ... beeper! (At least timer and horizontal IRQs are available). Naturally, a ... -
Horizontal Scrolling/Per Character gamesHello. Can anyone give me the titles of some Speccy games (preferably good ones, but I don't mind hearing about bad ones too) that scroll the playin…
... horizontal scrolling there are basically two main methods - one is to scroll ... [/I] works by having a scroll routine with a different list ... chunks of scenery. It could scroll at any speed and refresh ... -
Horizontal Scrolling/Per Character gamesHello. Can anyone give me the titles of some Speccy games (preferably good ones, but I don't mind hearing about bad ones too) that scroll the playin…
... horizontal scrolling there are basically two main methods - one is to scroll ... ] works by having a scroll routine with a different list ... of scenery. It could scroll at any speed and refresh ... had any problem with the scroll and noticed any jerkyness. Overall ... -
Add horizontal hardware scroll to ULA+In this case we must read a bit in the ULA+ for test if supported. And the future software that uses it must have to branch: 1. If hardware scroll i…
Tested the horizontal hardware scroll in a real machine, exactly a 128K clone done in a XC3S200A (MOD-VGA board).
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Add horizontal hardware scroll to ULA+In this case we must read a bit in the ULA+ for test if supported. And the future software that uses it must have to branch: 1. If hardware scroll i…
... of this hardware scroll are:
A) Scroll the background is ... tile attribute clash in smoth scroll games (horizontal and vertical).
scroll support:
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Add horizontal hardware scroll to ULA+In this case we must read a bit in the ULA+ for test if supported. And the future software that uses it must have to branch: 1. If hardware scroll i…
... Pretty much yes, when horizontal hardware scroll is enabled both of the ... whilst the vertical hardware scroll pulls the upper and ... does things; when the horizontal smooth scroll is enabled, it starts ... by the borders (or horizontal overscan can be enabled and ... -
What would you do with four joysticks?Anyone got some inspiring ideas for four-player games, or twin-stick two-player games..? I can think of, for four players: [I]Warlords[/I] (Atari) […
... 't scroll horizontally. I don't know if I need the horizontal ... -
Timex 2068 hi-color / hi-res modes.Hello. I know this is not a Timex forum but since it is a very close relative of the Speccy I thought I'd ask my question here. Does anyone know …
... ]Thrust[/I], drawn with alternate horizontal lines, but it looks a ... to use static pixels and scroll the colour map (which is ... -height attributes. Then you can scroll the screen vertically in pixels ... the next pass of the scroll routine.
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Timex 2068 hi-color / hi-res modes.Hello. I know this is not a Timex forum but since it is a very close relative of the Speccy I thought I'd ask my question here. Does anyone know …
... ]Thrust[/I], drawn with alternate horizontal lines, but it looks a ... -height attributes. Then you can scroll the screen vertically in pixels ... the next pass of the scroll routine.[/quote]That's a ... -
ZX Alien BreedNot sure if this has been mentioned already (I did trawl the threads but couldn't see anything :smile: ), but I've always hankered after a Speccy Ali…
... 8x16 for vertical (16x8 for horizontal). I did this because the ... that the map doesn't scroll. It also means I can ... -
ZX-Paintbrush 2.3 publishedDear readers, Today, I published version 2.3 of ZX-Paintbrush. Inspirated by kgmcneil, I decided to follow his ideas and implemented a switchable p…
... to one axis (vertical or horizontal - which ever movement occurs first ... wait for the screen to scroll across... It was like using ... key to restrict it to horizontal (eg: CTRL) {or even ... movement to either vertical or horizontal axis movement, depending on which ... -
ZX-Paintbrush 2.3 publishedDear readers, Today, I published version 2.3 of ZX-Paintbrush. Inspirated by kgmcneil, I decided to follow his ideas and implemented a switchable p…
... to one axis (vertical or horizontal - which ever movement occurs first ... wait for the screen to scroll across... It was like using ... key to restrict it to horizontal (eg: CTRL) {or even ... movement to either vertical or horizontal axis movement, depending on which ... -
ZXMAK2 Version 2.7.3.3Hi all, new version of ZXMAK2 emulator is available here: [url]https://zxmak2.codeplex.com/releases/view/106228[/url] Whats new: - a lot of bugs wa…
... to see an absolutely smooth scroll that I got to test ... form of tiny dithering with horizontal text scrolling.
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Face-Off: ZX Spectrum vs. Commodore 64I found an old oldish, but very informed and interesting article on the ole Spectrum vs. Commodore 64 argument. The article explains the technical d…
... whole screen; it couldn't scroll in a window. To ... bottom scoreboards required changing the scroll registers at just the ... will interfere with things; for horizontal scrolling there are numerous examples ... to write a maskless vertical scroll, have a look at [ ... -
Face-Off: ZX Spectrum vs. Commodore 64I found an old oldish, but very informed and interesting article on the ole Spectrum vs. Commodore 64 argument. The article explains the technical d…
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Well, whether it's horizontal or vertical movement, the hardware ... scrolling windows on the same horizontal row. You'd have to ... other; never mind making it scroll in a different direction. I ... -
Marmite game poll: GhostbustersLet's settle this with a poll! :-D
... software sprite, using the horizontal fine scroll to move it smoothly; my ...
